Author Description

"Poverty is not just about income. Poverty as a lived experience is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon spanning one's social and economic life - but we have, until now, never really understood how these different dimensions interact at household level. The way poverty is currently measured, by looking purely at income, is both too abstract to relate to people's everyday lives and not informative enough to help practitioners tackle entrenched poverty. This report develops a pioneering new model to fill this gap in policy makers' understanding, revealing how poverty manifests itself in different ways in different households and putting to bed once and for all the assumption that those in poverty are a homogeneous group that can all be helped in the same way. The analysis applies 20 indicators - spanning health, housing, education, material deprivation and social networks - to the low income population, to develop different 'types' of poverty. Each type must be addressed by a different combination of services and interventions."--Book jacket.